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In 2005, Vanunu told me:
"I really had no clue what I was doing by getting baptized a Christian; I just felt like I had to do it. It was my way to become a new being. It wasn't until after my trial that I started to read the New Testament. While I was in prison, I would read aloud for a half hour, twice a day. I would read the entire New Testament and begin it again when I finished the Book of Revelation. I did this for myself, as well as for my captors--not so much the prison guards, but the ones who watched me on camera twenty-four hours a day. Once I covered up the camera that spied on me and was punished with one month in solitary, without any books or radio; no contact with anyone anywhere was allowed. It was just them, watching me, constantly watching me."
"Who are they?"
"The Shen Beet, you know, like the FBI and the Mossad, like your CIA-- they were watching me. They tortured me by keeping a light on in my cell constantly for two years. They told me it was because they were afraid I would commit suicide, and the oppressive camera was for my safety. They recruited the guards and other prisoners to irritate me. They would deprive me of sleep by making loud noises near my cell all night long.
"I chose to read them 1 Corinthians 13 instead." [3]
Most Christians understand that 1 Corinthians 13 is a description of how God loves all people as well as a call for all people to love all others in the same way too. Christians also understand that God is love and love trumps all.
In November 2009, on Vanunu's You Tube page he published an excerpt of his spin of 1 Corinthians 13, and edited out the word LOVE and replaced it with FREEDOM: [Bold mine]
vanunuvmjc
(3 weeks ago)
1 FREEDOM 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of men and angels,
but have not FREEDOM,
I have become sounding brass or a tinkling symbol.
And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,
but have not FREEDOM, I am nothing.
vanunuvmjc
(2 weeks ago)
Hi,From june 2009,
This is Vanunu ,Auto reply. NO any news here.
The 6 th' year restrictions, not to leave the country continue.
AFTER 18 YEARS PRISON.
The isreal stupid spies will not get any thing from here.
FROM NOW ON, FOR $1,000,YOU CAN MEET ME HERE,VANUNU.
After 23 years, Now I am sending, God and religion free from my case.
FREEDOM AND ONLY FREEDOM I NEED NOW.
VMJC. [4]
In December 1998, the Anglican Rev. David B. Smith, of Australia, compiled, formatted and published LETTERS FROM SOLITARY: Letters from Mordechai Vanunu to David Smith he wrote:
"I first met Morde late on a Friday night. We were running a little coffee-shop-type setup outside the church building in Kings Cross and Morde just wandered in...His English was not terrific, but we managed some pretty serious conversation at our first meeting. Morde had recently completed studies at university. I had completed university just before entering seminary. Morde had been studying philosophy. I had just completed my honours degree in philosophy! Morde's interest had been in existentialism. Mine had been also! Morde's chief figure of interest was Nietzsche -- the belligerent German atheist. Mine was Kierkegaard -- the eccentric Christian preacher. Morde had read Kierkegaard, and my first introduction to Kierkegaard had been in a course comparing him to Nietzsche. We found we had plenty to talk about.
"It was a curious scene that developed that night. Two figures in the middle of the Cross, locked in passionate discussion about theories of meaning and existence. In Morde's broken English we managed to discuss Nietzsche's concept of "staring into the abyss' of your life and embracing your despair, and Kierkegaard's optimistic alternative -- throwing yourself into the abyss and finding that the abyss is God and is able to support you.
"At the time my own faith was deeply intertwined with these concepts. For Morde though, I don't think I realized exactly how much was at stake in his thinking until much further down the track. Some months later Morde would embrace the Christian faith, and let go of much of his former life. At an academic level he was also very self-consciously embracing Kierkegaard and rejecting Nietzsche. This is significant, for Kierkegaard was always on about taking "risks', or "leaps of faith', as he would call them.
